founded wasteLAnd, a series in that focuses on rarely-heard music of the last few decades. He has worked as a sound engineer for performances of electro-acoustic works by Boulez, Lucier, Meadowcroft, Nono, Reynolds, Sciarrino, and Stockhausen and as a recording engineer for albums released on Populist Records, Orenda Records, and on individual projects.

Worthington has performed around the world at the Carlsbad Music Faculty Showcase Festival, the Chihuahua International Festival, June in Buffalo, the The Music of Mark Dancigers & Anthony Suter Lucerne Festival, Monday Evening , MicroFest, and the WithOutWalls Festival. His music has been performed around the world Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 8 p.m. by ensembles and soloists in art galleries, concert halls, and venues Frederick Loewe Performance Hall such as the Carlsbad Music Festival, the Center for New Music, the DiMenna Center, Mengi, The Stone, and Roulette. He and his music Skyline (2016) Mark Dancigers can be heard on Albany Records, Bridge Records, Hat Hut, Naxos, New Focus Recordings, Populist Records, and Tzadik. Samuel Fischer,

Worthington studied at the Eastman School of Music with James The Bright Motion I (2011) VanDemark and the University of California San Diego with Mark Dresser. While in San Diego, he also studied the Alexander Technique Alastair Edmonstone, piano with Eileen Trobermann. He performs on a copy of a Lorenzo Carcassi bass built for him by Barrie Kolstein. Rain (2005, revision 2017)

Sara Andon, Alastair Edmonstone, piano

Aurora (2016)

Mark Dancigers, electric guitar Stephanie Lovell, piano

Burst (2009)

Sara Andon, flute Kathryn Nevin, Mark Dancigers, electric guitar For a complete calendar of School of Music events visit Stephanie Lovell, piano www.redlands.edu/music Scott Worthington, bass Electric Breakdown (2008) Anthony Suter of Redlands Wind Ensemble and Wheaton (Illinois) Municipal Band. Sara Andon, flute Kathryn Nevin, clarinet Dr. Nevin has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” and Mark Dancigers, electric guitar numerous times on local classical music radio live broadcasts. She has Stephanie Lovell, piano appeared in concerts with faculty at the University of Scott Worthington, bass Redlands, the Taylor String Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, as well as with Los Angeles Philharmonic principal strings. She has taught at La Program Notes Sierra University, the University of California, Riverside, Riverside Community College, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Pasadena Conservatory of Music and Glendale College. Dr. Nevin is on the faculty of the Skyline (2016) Mark Dancigers Montecito International Music Festival, has produced instructional videos for MusicProfessor.com, and is currently Artist Teacher of The title could suggest a text-painting image, in which the high Clarinet on the faculty of Redlands University School of Music. notes of each phrase outline buildings of a certain height in a city skyline. Another reading of the title could be more abstract, in which Scott Worthington, bass “Skyline” refers to the musical line being written by the violin in the air. Scott Worthington is a double bassist and composer based in Los Angeles. As a performer, he plays in chamber ensembles, , I am wrestling with Bach a bit in this piece. I was drawn to Bach’s recording studios, and as a soloist. His music has been commissioned solo violin pieces as an inspiration because of their awesomeness by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Loadbang, the Ekmeles and because players can take them and make them their own. I’ve Vocal Ensemble, and numerous soloists. In 2017, Worthington became also played the E major partita on guitar, so re-encountering this the principal bass of the Redlands Symphony and the Artist Teacher of music was like re-discovering an old friend. Bass at the University of Redlands.

I wrote this piece for a wonderful friend and player, Michi Wiancko, As a performer-composer Worthington has released two albums to who has commissioned a series of solos and is in the process of critical acclaim on Populist Records. The most recent, Prism, features making a new album of these works. his own music for solo bass with electronics and bass ensemble and was named one of The New Yorker’s top ten classical albums of 2015 The Bright Motion I (2011) by Alex Ross. He frequently commissions new music for solo bass and has recently premiered pieces by Michael Pisaro, Clarence Barlow, The title of this piece refers to how I hear certain types of harmonic and Randy Gibson. As a chamber musician, Worthington is a regular motion, particularly in the piano music of Beethoven and Chopin. performer in LA’s new music community and is a member of Bass2Bass, an electric bass duo with performer-composer Michelle Lou. Along While for some listeners the sound world of this piece might evoke with violinist Andrew McIntosh, he was part of the second duo to give Debussy, my inspirations were much more rooted in my (probably performances of Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s Plainsound Glissando idiosyncratic) hearing of 19th century piano repertoire. Modulation, a concert-length work in extended just intonation.

I wrote this piece for my good friend and long-time collaborator His other engagements span a variety of areas in contemporary music. Michael Mizrahi, and he recorded this piece on an album of the same Worthington is active as a concert organizer and in 2013 he co- to missionary parents in Japan, Stephanie Lovell received her early title. Michael wrote that the piece “is a kind of imaginary ballet in an musical training there, then later entered the University of Redlands to imaginary landscape”; that sounds about right. study with Louanne Fuchs Long, under whose tutelage she completed two degrees, graduating summa cum laude. During her university Rain (2005, revision 2017) years, she won several competitions, including the prestigious Joanna Hodges International Piano Conference and Competition in which she I originally wrote this piece for flutist Daniel Alexander and was a four-time winner. She was also privileged to solo with orchestras percussionist Joshua Quillen, now of So Percussion, to be performed in the Inland Empire. An exercising and hiking enthusiast, Stephanie on Steel Drums (double seconds). I was thrilled at the opportunity tries to balance her professional life with outdoor activities. She and to arrange the steel drum part for piano. For this reason, you’ll hear her husband, Lars, enjoy entertaining and sharing good food and that the piano part lives in a limited range on the instrument. I like conversation around the table. this restriction of expressive means. The piece is primarily driven by melody in the beginning and, towards the end, by rhythm and Kathryn Nevin, clarinet texture. Kathryn Nevin earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Clarinet Aurora (2016) Performance from University of Southern California, where she studied with Mitchell Lurie, Michele Zukovsky, David Howard and Yehuda Gilad. Originally from the Chicago area, she was a student of Melvin In Spring 2016 I was struck by the idea of forming an electric guitar Warner at Northern Illinois University where she received a Bachelor and piano duo and writing an extended composition for it. As with of Music. In Southern California, Dr. Nevin has performed with many much of my music, a main inspiration was the opportunity to work orchestras including San Diego Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, New with a wonderful performer, in this case pianist Aaron Wunsch. The West Symphony, Long Beach , Santa Barbara Symphony, Opera project is on-going, and I continue to be fascinated by the sonic Santa Barbara, Monterey Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic. She possibilities and capabilities of these two versatile instruments. I is a member of St. Matthew’s Chamber , Desert Symphony almost imagine the ensemble to be something like a piano duo with in Palm Desert, Redlands Symphony Orchestra and Long Beach more timbral variation - lots of sound and notes are possible, and Municipal Band. sometimes the challenge is to bring clarity.

Dr. Nevin is an active soloist and chamber musician, having been a Aurora is a piece that utilizes live looping. In performance, guitar founding member of several award-winning ensembles, including tracks are “recorded”, played back, and layered on top of each other Triole, recipient of an NEA Chamber Music Residency. She is currently in real time. I use this as an opportunity for both instruments to have a member of Calico Winds, an award-winning internationally touring short “solos” over a rhythmically active texture. wind quintet, whose recordings and performances around the country have received critical acclaim, including those at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Burst (2009) Recital Hall. The ensemble’s most recent commercial release, Vintage America, A Musical Meritage (Albany), features 19th and early 20th This is a piece for NOW Ensemble, the collective of players and century American music. Her playing can also be heard on the CDs composers I co-founded with friends at the Yale School of Music Hymns to Forgotten Moons (Centaur) and Tango Rojo (Red Tango) in 2004. The piece started with the idea to showcase the guitar; (Candlelight Music). She has been a concerto soloist with the Redlands that does happen a little bit, but the melodies in all instruments end Symphony, Culver City Symphony, La Sierra Symphony, University up taking center stage. The opening of the piece was inspired a bit County Philharmonic, the Desert Symphony, the Los Angeles Doctors by the Mozart Requiem and the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, and Symphony, the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Orchestra Santa Monica, the guitar lines by the Malian guitarist and songwriter “Ali Farka” and the Caltech-Occidental Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared Touré. as soloist with the Aspen Young Artists Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony. As concertmaster of the Riverside County Philharmonic, Electric Breakdown (2008) Anthony Suter Mr. Fischer has led the orchestra in a program without conductor, and he has given the world premiere of Victoria Bondʼs violin concerto I have often found that pieces come to life from a combination of great Soul of a Nation - a Thomas Jefferson Portrait. Mr. Fischer is also opportunities and bad ideas. I met Judd Greenstein, one of the co- concertmaster of the Desert Symphony and has performed as guest founders of NOW Ensemble, in 2007 at a mutual friend’s wedding. concertmaster for Opera Santa Barbara, Redlands Symphony, and the Santa Barabara Chamber Orchestra. He has performed with orchestras After a weekend of whiskey and slumming around Nashville, he including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Opera asked me to write a piece for the group. Electric Breakdown was Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, and the Pasadena Symphony. He has actually the first piece I wrote after starting at Redlands in 2008. recorded extensively for motion picture and television soundtracks, record albums, and video game soundtracks by many of Hollywoodʼs As for the bad idea part-- I had never written for electric guitar before, top composers and artists. Mr. Fischer gives frequent chamber music but had the idea to feature the instrument as sort of a concertino-type performances and has been featured at the Sundays Live series at the piece. I remember getting e-mails from Judd when the group was Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Idyllwild Distinguished Artists rehearsing the piece that were something to the effect of “man, your Chamber Music Series, the Montecito International Music Festival, the piece is hard”. The brunt of the difficulty was laid at the feet of this Austin Chamber Music Festival, and the Yellow Barn Festival. He has guy named Mark Dancigers. Despite never having met him, I wrote collaborated with artists including Anne Akiko-Meyers, Martin Beaver, this crazy difficult perpetual motion piece that is just unrelenting the Joseph Silverstein, and the Jupiter String Quartet. A passionate educator, whole way through. Of course, he was more than up to the challenge; Mr. Fischer is on the faculty of the Colburn School of Performing Arts, I was very lucky to have him shepherd the piece into existence some the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program, the Montecito International Music nine years ago. Festival, the Young Musicians Foundation Chamber Music Series, and Junior Chamber Music Los Angeles. Mr. Fischer is a member of the Fast forward to 2017, where I am once again very fortunate-- not Music Advisory Boards of the Young Musicians Foundation and the only to have Mark willing to dust off this piece and perform it with Los Angeles Doctors Symphony. this amazing group of Redlands faculty, but to have him here at Redlands as my colleague and co-conspirator. Sometimes having Stephanie Lovell, piano bad ideas really pays off. Stephanie Lovell is an adjunct faculty at the University of Redlands As for the piece itself, the title comes from a particular kind of where she serves as staff accompanist, professor of Music Theory bluegrass piece called a “breakdown”, which is a really fast, virtuosic and instructor in the Community School of Music and the Arts. She instrumental number. It is tinged with bluegrass licks, some honky- is in demand as a collaborative performer in the Inland Empire and tonk, and occasional globs of bluesy rock. Like a lot of my pieces, it in Los Angeles and Orange County. In addition to helping emerging artists in their musical journeys, Mrs. Lovell has had opportunity to doesn’t slow down and burns through to the end. I owe a great deal collaborate with internationally renowned musicians such as Arturo of thanks to Mark and the rest of the group for putting it together, Delmoni, Liviu Varcol, Randy Hawes, and Gene Pokorny. Born Alastair Edmonstone, piano as it is truly wonderful to hear a piece from my very earliest days at Redlands. Alastair Edmonstone has performed as collaborative pianist, soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe and Africa. Composers Recent performances include recitals at New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Seattle Art Museum, University of Maryland, Mark Dancigers ’s Jordan Hall, Seattle’s Meany Theater, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the University of Edinburgh. An advocate Mark Dancigers is a composer of chamber, orchestral, film, and solo of modern music, Dr. Edmonstone has collaborated with leading instrumental works, and the electric guitarist for the new-chamber composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Huck Hodge, Lee Hyla, Kirk music group NOW Ensemble. He studied at Yale (B.A.), the Yale Mechem and Gunther Schuller. Championing challenging works of School of Music (M.M.), and Princeton University (Ph.D.). His the 20th and 21st Century repertoire, Dr. Edmonstone gave the Seattle principal teachers have been Steven Mackey, Martin Bresnick, Paul premier of Luciano Berio’s Sonata per pianoforte solo, the Boston Lansky, Ezra Laderman, John Halle, Kathryn Alexander, and Matthew premier of Gunther Schuller’s Grand Concerto for Percussion and Suttor. Keyboards and over a dozen performances of Olivier Messiaen’s legendary piano cycle Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. As chamber Mark Dancigers’ music has been performed nationally and internationally musician, Edmonstone has performed with current and former at the Apples and Olives Festival in Zurich, the Nordernzon Performing members of the Baltimore and Boston Symphony Orchestras, City Arts Festival in the Netherlands, The Athens Concert Hall, Greece, of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle , , Carnegie Hall, Miller Theater, Symphony Space, Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Orchestra and Merkin Hall, BargeMusic, the Kitchen NYC, the Bang on a Can Canadian Brass. He has worked extensively with leading vocalists such Marathon, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, the as Vinson Cole, Jane Eaglen, Marquita Lister and Louise Toppin. A Skaneateles Festival, the Festival International Chihuahua, and many native of Perth, Scotland, Alastair holds the Doctor of Musical Arts other venues. degree from the University of Washington, and a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music. He His recent collaborations include works with ballet earned his undergraduate degree from Birmingham Conservatoire in dancers and choreographers Troy Schumacher and Justin Peck, with England, and also studied at the Royal Conservatory, Brussels. Prior Oscar-nominated film director Sam Green, and the indie rock band San to his appointment at California State University San Bernardino, Dr. Fermin. His orchestral music has been performed by the New York Edmonstone held faculty positions at Towson University, Lincoln Youth Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Alabama Orchestra, University and Birmingham Conservatoire. the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Princeton University Orchestra.

Sam Fischer, violin Dancigers’ compositions and guitar playing can be heard on eight albums released on New Amsterdam Records with NOW Ensemble, Sam Fischer enjoys an active, versatile career throughout his native yMusic, William Brittelle, and others. As an album producer, his credits Southern California. Mr. Fischer holds a Bachelor of Music degree include pianist Michael Mizrahi’s Currents (2016) and The Bright from the University of Southern California and a Masters degree from Motion (2012). With NOW Ensemble, he has premiered over 100 new the Juilliard School. His principal teachers include Robert Lipsett, compositions by a broad spectrum of contemporary composers. Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Emanuel Borok. Mr. Fischer appears regularly as soloist with orchestra including the Riverside Anthony Suter Performers

Anthony Suter’s music has been heard in nearly every major U.S. city, Sara Andon, flute as well as a growing list of international venues. His works include three chamber , chamber and orchestral music, and several Flutist Sara Andon is an international soloist and recording artist known works for wind ensemble. for her ravishing tone and deeply engaging musical interpretations. A versatile performer in many music genres including solo, chamber, He studied at the University of Southern California (B.M., 2002), the symphonic, opera, ballet, new music, jazz and Broadway, she has (M.M., 2004), and the University of Texas at performed all over the world in major music festivals and concert Austin (D.M.A., 2008). His teachers have included Donald Crockett, venues including NYC Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Stephen Hartke, Frank Ticheli, William Bolcom, Susan Botti, Bright Angeles, on TV/radio broadcasts, as well as in the Hollywood studios Sheng, and Dan Welcher. This September he will begin his tenth year for countless documentaries, video games and movie soundtracks. teaching at the University of Redlands, where his is an Associate She is a graduate from USC and Yale and has performed with many Professor of Music. new music ensembles on several contemporary music series, including Green Umbrella, Ojai Music Festival, Hear Now, New Music New He has received awards from the National Opera Association, the Haven and People Inside Electronics, as well as with other elite College Band Director’s National Association, ASCAP, Associazione ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Culturale Musicale “Euritmia”, the British and International Bass Chamber Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She is also the Forum, Concorso 2 Agosto, and the Texas String Project. In 2010, he Principal Solo/Flutist with the Redlands Symphony and is the Artist was honored with a University-wide award for Innovative Teaching Teacher of Flute at the University of Redlands School of Music and from the University of Redlands. Idyllwild Arts Academy. She can be heard on numerous live concerts in the United States, Europe, and China and has recorded music of J.S. Centaur Records has released a recording entitled Hymns to Forgotten Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Schoenberg as well as some of the most Moons: the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anthony Suter [CRC current contemporary composers on the new music concert scene. In 3019], which features recordings of two of Professor Suter’s works addition to performing traditional classical concerto repertoire, she has performed by University of Redlands faculty. Recent works include performed Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky´s brilliant Luna for SATB choir, written for Nicholle Andrews and the University Double Flute Concerto with renowned flutist Ransom Wilson at Zipper of Redlands Chapel Singers, and two works for the 2017 International Hall in Los Angeles. She is also premiering many new concert suites for Trombone Festival. solo flute and orchestra of classic film scores of legendary composers such as Elmer Bernstein, , Lee Holdridge and Henry Mancini His music is published by Daehn Publications (United States), Edizione that many current film composers are writing for her. In addition, she Musicali Wicky Milan (Italy), as well as his own imprint, Sutera Music has also recorded with several incredible artists ranging from Placido Publishing. Domingo to pop duo Daft Punk for their recent 2014 Grammy-winning album Random Access Memories, as well as Grammy-winning artists, composer/ jazz pianist Billy Childs and cellist YoYo Ma.